Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
Alright, if you can watch the new WALL·E trailer and not want to see the film, we’re just interested in different things, and I’m certainly not going to convince you simply by telling you how great I think it looks.
Check it out for yourself here, where it’s listed as “Trailer 3”.
There are still a number of things they’re holding back, ideas they’re just hinting at in this, but Disney says this is the final theatrical trailer. Fine by me. I’d rather let Andrew Stanton and those big-brained Pixar boys knock me silly in the theater. I love that they’ve laid the groundwork by letting the character of WALL·E get ingrained in pop consciousness before they started selling the storyline. It’s worked, at least with all the kids we know. Just now, when the trailer went live, some friends of ours were here to meet my new son, and their two kids (ages 4 and 9) and Toshi all crowded around the computer, super-excited to see more footage of WALL·E, and they went absolutely apeshit for what they saw.
Me? I’m just intrigued by what looks like a cross between a Buster Keaton comedy and 2001, and I hope this marks another step forward for the Pixar team.
I’ll leave you with a comment I heard from Jeremy Smith, the artist formerly known as Mr. Beaks, when he got back from Pixar. He told me that he asked Stanton why WALL·E would have a video copy of the god-awful HELLO DOLLY, and Stanton replied, “Because WALL·E has terrible taste.” For some reason, that entertains me mightily.
Is it June yet?
Drew McWeeny, Los Angeles
Drew McWeeny, Los Angeles
